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Anytime i have a new firefox install i immediately go throught the settings and turn that shit, telemetry etc off, switch from google, install ublock origin and enable find in page when you start typing. Anytime i am too lazy to do it, i hate the internet immediately.
But this is funny maybe i have been in error all these years.
Web browsers are just another adware/spyware ridden operating system running on top of the original adware/spyware ridden operating system. For as much as possible we should go back to more dedicated protocols and clients that have a very limited scope that volunteer developers can actual keep up with like gemini for blogs or for lemmy - desktop clients like Alexandrite or Neon Modem.
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Are you familiar with Plan 9 or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol (9P)? It's a simple protocol for representing system resources (any resources, remote or local) as a tree of files. The protocol itself doesn't do much but it can be a common language for all kinds of systems to talk to each other with. It can be very efficient and robust to represent resources as a tree of files and better than the alternative of bespoke protocols and abstractions for every resource. The Plan 9 system uses this abstraction everywhere and it results in a very tightly integrated system that can be more capable than other operating systems with a fraction of the code. And since almost all operations on the system are operations on abstract files it doesn't matter if the files are local or remote to the system :3
I thought you might be interested because web browsers partially arose as a result of the poor integration of systems like Unix or Windows with the internet. But Plan 9 was written from the start as a distributed operating system. I want to write a 9P fileserver for lemmy sometime. I hope this doesn't come across as too rant-like. I got no sleep lol
Plan 9 aesthetics are under appreciated. Would often imagine a communist society with plan 9 terminals everywhere when I went through that phase.